Past Event
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Bringing their work out of the classroom and into the public realm, advanced poetry students will share their poems in a reading on campus on Tuesday, April 21. The culmination of an extensive writing and revision process, the public reading will feature 12 students who have worked closely with Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist.
WHERE: Manor House Armstrong Lounge
COST: Free
CONTACT: Department of English, 503-768-7405
Past Event
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 3 p.m.
John Isles is the author of Inverse Sky (Iowa, 2008) and Ark (Iowa, 2003) and coeditor of the Baltics section of New European Poets. He received an award from the Los Angeles Review in 2004 and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005. His poems have appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and Pleiades.
Kristen Hanlon’s chapbook, Proximity Talks, was published by Noemi Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Puerto del Sol, VOLT, and New Orleans Review, among others. She is a past recipient of the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation/Intersection for the Arts. From 2002-2007 she edited XANTIPPE, an annual print journal for poems, poetics, interviews and reviews of small press/university press titles; it continues as a webzine.
WHERE: Watzek Library, Pamplin Room
COST: Free
CONTACT: Dyann Alkire, administrative assistant for the English department, 503-768-7405
Past Event
11 through 13 March 2009
The 28th Annual Gender Studies Symposium will feature more than 25 events exploring gender in the context of health care, education, politics, art, and more. The symposium will be comprised of three days of panel discussions, lectures, readings, performances, workshops, and an art exhibition.
Featured events include:
- Poetry Workshop with Salt Lines, featuring Andrea Gibson with Denise Jolly and Tara Hardy
- Keynote Lecture, “Human Rights Challenges to Gender Injustice,” Loretta Ross, reproductive justice activist
- Keynote Lecture, “Fatherhood, Poverty, and Gender Injustice: Which Way Forward for the Obama Administration?”
- Performances by the welfareQUEENS and Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu, Friday
Most events held in Templeton Student Center. Consult the full schedule for details.
COST: Free
CONTACT: Kim Brodkin, gender studies, 503 768-7678
Past Event
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 7 p.m.
D. A. Powell’s books of poetry include Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails. The latter was a finalist for the PEN West, Lambda, Publishers’ Triangle and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Chronic, his fourth US collection, was published in February 2009.
The New York Times wrote of Powell’s work, “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible.” Among his many honors, Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including New England Review, the Washington Post, Poetry, the Norton anthology Hybrid Forms, and Best American Poetry 2008.
The event will take place in the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge. Refreshments will be served. Please contact Dyann Alkire at 503-768-7405 for further information.
Past Event
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 7 p.m.
Endi Bogue Hartigan’s first book, One Sun Storm, was selected for the 2008 Colorado Prize for Poetry by final judge Martha Ronk and will be available in November, 2008. Hartigan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Free Verse, Quarterly West, TinFish, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Insurance, LVNG, the Antioch Review, Northwest Review, as well as a number of other magazines and an anthology. She cofounded and edited Spectaculum, a magazine devoted to long poems and series, for several years. A graduate of Reed College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hartigan has lived primarily on the West coast and Hawai’i, and now works and lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and son.
This event is free and open to the public. It will take place at the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.
Past Event
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 3:30 p.m.
In honor of the 400th birthday of poet John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674), best known for his poem Paradise Lost, the Department of English will host David Biespiel, the editor of Poetry Northwest and author of Wild Civility. Biespiel will deliver a lecture and provide commentary on reading Milton’s work. There will also be an image slide show, faculty and student readings, and a birthday cake.
Past Event
Friday, 5 December 2008, 3 p.m.
Mark Conway’s book of poetry Any Holy City won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year’s PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Foundations, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Conway is also the poetry editor of Post Road.
Past Event
Monday, 13 October 2008, 7 p.m.
J.W. Marshall and Christine Deaval, co-owners of Seattle’s Open Books, one of only two all-poetry bookstores in the nation, will read from their original works on Monday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.
Marshall is the author of “Meaning A Cloud,” published by Oberlin College Press in 2008, the result of his winning the 2007 Field Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Cranky, Field, Golden Handcuffs Review, LitRag, Poetry, and other magazines.
Deavel is the author of “Box of Little Spruce,” a chapbook published in 2005 by LitRag Press. Her work has appeared in Fence, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Iowa Review, Volt, and other magazines. In 2009, her piece “Of the Bird’s Wing There Are Tracts of Feathers” will be included in an anthology of artists and writers, to be published by the University of Washington Press.
Past Event
5 June through 13 July 2008
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections is proud to host the final exhibition of a poetry broadside collection assembled by the Friends of William Stafford. This is also the first of a series of events to celebrate the recent gift of the William Stafford Archives to the College by the Stafford Family.
Featured printers and publishers include Karla Elling of Mummy Mountain Press, Sandy Tilcock of lone goose press, John Laursen of Press-22, Carlos Reyes of Trask House Books, Vi Gale’s Prescott Street Press, and Wang Hui-Ming.
Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner, and Paul Merchant of Lewis & Clark College Special Collections are the curators of the exhibit. For further information, please contact Doug Erickson, Head of Special Collections, 503-768-7254, dme@lclark.edu
This exhibit is supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Past Event
Friday, 4 April 2008, 3 p.m.
Circanian, Joanna Klink’s second book, offers beautifully crafted poems that are set in a variety of different physical and emotional locations, and that take as their guiding vision circadian clocks.
